Reading 8-1 Career Discover

Made up of two opposite things that seem impossible but true

• Impromptu
• To map out
• Paradoxical
• To land
• Pluto

Unplanned

• Impromptu
• Paradoxical
• A living
• Ambiguity

To plan the details of something

• To land
• Emerging
• To map out
• Conscious

To succeed in getting (something)

• Emerging
• To land (something)
• Ambiguity
• Outcomes

A job

• Persistence
• Ambiguity
• A living
• Conscious

Read the following statements. Choose the author's main idea.

• The planned happenstance theory of career emphasizes that our lives are ruled by luck.
• Part of planned happenstance is finding the career that will bring you the highest salary.
• Finding one's career path involves self-knowledge, preparation, and planned happenstance.

Laid off [paragraph 1]

• dismissed from one's job
• corrected by one's boss

Emerging [paragraph 1]

• becoming weak
• becoming known

Conscious [paragraph 4]

• being asleep or unaware of what is happening
• having an awareness of what is happening

Ambiguity [paragraph 4]

• the state of being successful
• the state of being unknown, unclear